Eddie Van Halen and Sammy Hagar: The 1987 Interview, Part 2

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Talking Guitar: Jas Obrecht's Music Magazine

9 ай бұрын

This is the second part of my July 14, 1987, joint interview with Eddie Van Halen and Sammy Hagar. If you haven't already heard it, here's the link to part 1: • Eddie Van Halen and Sa...
This interview took place on the patio of Sammy’s spacious home in Mill Valley, California. As mentioned in the intro to Part 1, at the time of this interview Sammy had sung on Van Halen’s chart-topping "5150" album, completed a major tour with the band, and had just released his self-titled solo album. Eddie had co-produced the album with Sammy and played bass on it. (This album was re-released as "I Never Said Goodbye.") At more than 80 minutes, our patio meeting that afternoon would lead to one of the most in-depth and revealing interviews they’d do together. Portions of it were transcribed for my October 1987 cover story for Guitar Player magazine.
Solo photos of Eddie by Jas Obrecht. The magazine cover photo was shot by Ray Olsen.
I hope you enjoy this unique recording, and be sure to check out my other historic Van Halen interviews on the Talking Guitar KZfaq channel. To help us continue producing podcasts, please hit that donate button: paypal.me/TalkingGuitar.
Thanks to engineer/producer Nik Hunt for enhancing the sound of the 36-year-old master tape. For dozens more guitar-intensive podcasts, interview transcripts, and articles, visit Talking Guitar magazine at jasobrecht.substack.com/. #vanhalen #eddievanhalen #edwardvanhalen #jasobrecht #talkingguitar #nikhunt #guitarplayermagazine
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@RocketBoy1969 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Jas for sharing!

@jorgeocampo1794 9 ай бұрын

Jas thanks for sharing with us . I was that kid if Eddie was on the cover I bought it and read 4 or 5 times 😂

@JohnnyBeane 9 ай бұрын

Amazing stuff Jas!

@emiliog.4432 8 ай бұрын

Great documentation. We are so lucky that you did these interviews.

@AkiataSkirata 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting these interviews. I remember reading the article back in the day and it's really cool to hear the raw tapes.

@jameyd4155 9 ай бұрын

Johnny Beane sent us … glad he did. Thank you for the great content.

@davidburgenmeyer1336 5 ай бұрын

Definitely Awesome!

@Rockshredder 7 ай бұрын

Funny that Eddie never went back to playing like he did on Fair Warning with all that Allan Holdsworth influenced playing. Too bad as I really liked his playing on that album. Thanks for the great interviews Jaz.

@MrAvalanche04 9 ай бұрын

Wow great stuff!! THANK YOU JAS! Your comment at the beginning about Ed’s demeanor is very noticeable.. However I believe you may have made it worse by commenting on the star magazine question they wanted to ask you about.. I think that made him even more reserved on his answers.. I remember reading this article in high school when I was supposed to be writing a composition so I could graduate! lol Yes i did finish the composition and graduated.. Again thank you for posting this takes me back to the best decade in my life. I will be looking forward to your post of the other interview’s you mentioned…

@StellarVeller 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Sir for sharing this truly timeless interview.

@GSN1972 9 ай бұрын

Awesome stuff loved it…Johnny Beane promoted it🤘

@emiliog.4432 8 ай бұрын

No more praise for Allan Holdsworth. What happened with their relationship? These interviews are fascinating to listen to. Every step of Eddie’s journey should have been documented. Thanks for sharing these tapes Jas.

@knightfall9394 8 ай бұрын

he was gonna help allan out with a album that became road games, but allan didnt wanna wait for ed to return from tour. If I remember right ed brings him up in a early 90s interview and refers to him as a friend but said he needed some direction with his music. I dont believe there was ever a time where either one of them bad mouthed each other in the press (or at least what was printed)

@markdillon7770 9 ай бұрын

Checked this out cause Johnny Beane said so.🤘

@JohnnyBeane 9 ай бұрын

Thank you Mark!

@johnhogg9138 9 ай бұрын

Thanks much, Jas! I have a perhaps false memory of the Yngwie answer being a touch longer in the printed article. I guess time does that to the mind.

@walterevans2118 9 ай бұрын

I dont think so ...Ive got it here in front of me & it reads Eddie saying of Yngwie - 'The dude's FAST man. Boy I know that' ....& Sammy replies - 'Ed's comment was -the guy's playing SOME STUFF MAN'.

@johnhogg9138 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! That is exactly what i remembered. Seriously, thank you.@@walterevans2118

@walterevans2118 9 ай бұрын

@@johnhogg9138 I was surprised to hear on this tape that Eddie still remembered the fiasco from the late 1970s ten years earlier about Tom Scholtz copying his solo actually…lol..This interview would have been just after Boston released their Third Stage album so for Jas to have put it in print would have been too controversial possibly.

@walterevans2118 9 ай бұрын

@@johnhogg9138 Actually Jas himself did a lovely interview recently on the Van Halen Stories live podcast …During it he talked about spending time with both Ed and Valerie (which he might have recordings of coming up) and saw how much Ed meant to Val during their interactions. This is the stuff which people need to listen to. Not the gossip gutter press rubbish which was being invented and circulated earlier…In an earlier Ed interview with Jas in 1982 they talked about how the press had invented stuff they claimed they witnessed at an LA restaurant and Ed told Jas he and Valerie hadn’t even been there. But these negative invented stories would spread like wildfire by these unscrupulous ‘journalists’ and were as hard to ‘unspread ‘ as butter…As someone once said - ‘a big lie can be spread half way round the world before the truth is even out of the front door with its boots on. And on the internet today it’s even worse because of the interactive global technology.

@walterevans2118 9 ай бұрын

15:51 with the track ‘INSIDE ‘ all those vocal tracks sound a real hoot but in the complex mix down it’s difficult to decipher all the details & what’s being said….What would be really good is to have one of these isolated tracks videos with all the vocals isolated like when they isolate guitar tracks so we can hear all of what’s said on the soundtrack clearly…It would be funnier than Saturday Night Live….lol….Also on that one ED’s guitar sounds so nutty comical in places it sounds like ‘Michael Bentine’s POTTY TIME. …lol

@NelsonRodriguez_ 9 ай бұрын

Good morning beautiful people peace from California Silver Strand Beach The Volcano Posse 🖋️

@FrankieLovesElvis 9 ай бұрын

On what part of the interview does Sammy call out Eddie on being drunk ? 😊

@Busk_N_Groove 8 ай бұрын

It’s early on in Part 1 of this interview.

@MichaelJohnson-184 3 ай бұрын

Well, Sammy wasn't wrong.

@fireballmarlboroman3753 Күн бұрын

In part one of this interview Hagar insulted Eddie and brought up a time when Eddie played crappy guitar because he was drunk

@fireballmarlboroman3753 Күн бұрын

@@MichaelJohnson-184yes Hagar was wrong for many reasons for one Eddie wasn't bringing up all the times Hagar was drunk and forgot the words which he has and Eddie is Hagar's boss his meal ticket and come on let's be real 'you don't insult your boss' and don't insult the boss on tv !! Why even bring up negative crap,I mean who did Hagar think he was,if I was Eddie I would have put Hagar in his place right then and there !

@JokersWild70 8 ай бұрын

Eddie just wasnt a very social guy, was he? His answers always seemed to be very short, and he sounds annoyed.

@knightfall9394 8 ай бұрын

guy lived and breathed music 24/7 im sure he could give a shit about interviews, also think about the yrs he was growing up in a America as a foreigner, hard to be sociable and develop those skills when you cant speak the language

@ciadella1971 4 ай бұрын

Eddie has said many times that he doesn't like to do interviews. I noticed that as well.

@chrisb8655 Ай бұрын

@@knightfall9394You make it sound like he was an exchange student. He learned English quickly and was like any other American teenager by the time he was in highschool.